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No problem! Glad you found them! 🙂

Hi. Do you mean effects rather than palettes? Figure-of-8 is in Effects rather than position palettes. Sometimes with beta software there is an effects.zbr file that is needed in addition but this should not be the case for production software. What version of ZerOS did you update *from* and *to*? Looking through the Beta forum it seems the effects palettes are contained within the Fixture Library: https://zero88.com/library

You’ll need to reload your showfile from USB to get any position palettes you programmed. (You did of course save your showfile before doing the software update!). You won’t get any position palettes by default. If you’ve patched a moving head it’s likely you will be able to generate some auto-palettes for colour, beam and shape depending on the capabilities of your mover.

999 I think? Maybe plus some point cues too. I don’t think you’ll have a capacity issue!

Aha! That sounds better, I knew there was something that didn’t feel quite right with my approach as @Davidmkhighlighted. David if you give this a go, please post the results! Having a ‘bleed through’ of some arbitrary underlying state is something I can tend to need too. Again usually colour but could also apply to eg gobos. Edward - is channel level release something anyone else has requested? Not sure how feasible this would be. Regards, Kevin

Hi David. You need to release colour channels where you want the underlying cue colours to take effect. I’m not sure you can do this on a per channel basis though, only on a playback. If your chase is not too long maybe each step could be a playback and use a macro to link together each playback. That’s a bit of a guess though. I’ll be interested in any suggestions from Edward. regards, Kevin

This seems to have attracted ZOS-7126 which has been implemented in ZerOS 7.9.9.32. Thanks chaps, much appreciated! 😀 "ZOS-7126 Grey box indicators in Output Window now display during Move-on-Dark, and hide when complete" All users - see, even after 6 years, you can get your requests implemented! 🤣

It takes a lot of experience. I have had the FLX desk for 6 years yet I am still a novice! Yet FLX is far more powerful than previous lighting control desks I have used.

Delfine - your English is good. Better than my French! You are having a technical conversation with specialist terminology which makes it extra hard! You are doing fine! SmartTag=on = common usage SmartTag=off = advanced usage Usually if you are programming a sequential cue stack, SmartTag is normal. If you are splitting parameters and need detailed control of what is recorded (or updated) then usually you will need SmartTag off so the user has precise control.

Hi Delfine, This is a situation where you will need to turn off SmartTag. I think the process will be: Go into the Cue On your PARLEDs, make the intensity >0% so you can see them lit, then set the colour as required. Set the intensity of your PARLEDs back to 0% UPDATE and turn off SmartTag As Edward explained in another thread, if SmartTag is turned on, the console will only record other tagged parameters if the intensity is >0%. If you turn off SmartTag, then the parameters that are tagged in the Programmer will be recorded into the cue regardless of intensity. For your intensity playback, you will also need to turn SmartTag off (probably), since you will only want to record intensity values and not colour/beamshape/position parameters. I hope this helps. Edward will probably give a better and more complete explanation later, but I hope this helps if you are trying to programme now. Regards, Kevin

Yea, but don't go messing with your electrical installation eh. Main equipotential bonding should indeed be connecting metallic water and gas pipes to the MET but you don't want to be arbitrarily connecting your socket earths to any pipes. If your sockets supply equipment that has a high leakage or high functional earth current then there are proper methods defined in the IEE Wiring Regs for using multi-earth sockets (like MK Logic Plus "outboard" sockets). You need the advice of an appropriately knowledgeable electrician before you go here otherwise you could create a shock hazard or have tripping issues with RCDs.

Ah - Edward - if "the event" finally happened, then indeed, Congratulations!!!!! "Now get back in the shed, you've been a bad boy." Oh sorry, that was MY wife. But get used to it 😄

It's probably 25 years or more old, so we're glad it still works and you're still using it! 🙂

They are. Any many of us should be able to help you out if you have a query, so post away! Kevin

Cool! Good luck, I hope you like it! 🙂

Please don't double post. I've answered to your post in the Solution XL forum.

User Manual is here: https://www.zero88.com/storage/downloads/c08f6d38-8d53-4f22-8b22-9de894643a52/Lightmaster-XL-Manual.pdf Maybe your desk is giving the error codes shown on Page 25? However it doesn't seem to be giving any of the "Hardware Problems" codes, so not all is lost! Maybe a Super User Reset is needed (see Page 16) to restore the desk since the internal non-volatile memory has become corrupted since the desk hasn't been used for so long ("All these problems are likely to be transitory. They may require a Super User Clear Memory and/or Reset operation and some reprogramming.") Any other questions, please use the above Forum for Light Master XL and please don't double-post, you won't get a faster answer and you'll just annoy others trying to help you... https://zero88.com/forum/forum/83-other-discontinued-products/ If you get nowhere fault finding this, it might be worth emailing Keith Rogers who will be able to help you more (chance is he even built your desk!): keith.rogers@signify.com

On this page: https://www.zero88.com/control/flxs Under this section: Features (both consoles) It has: Channels patchable across 64 Universes In the manual: https://www.zero88.com/manuals/zeros/patching/available-channels It says: On all ZerOS consoles, including FLX, FLX S24 & FLX S48, ZerOS allows fixtures to be patched across 64 universes without wasting unused channels. Any two of these universes can be sent out over the two DMX outputs. The total number of used channels across the 64 universes must not exceed the number of universes your console is licensed to output. So you should be good to go... If you try to patch a new fixture are you able to assign the channels to Universe 2 and then assign Universe 2 to say the 3-pin XLR?

Hi Delfine, Inhibit was covered in one of the recent training sessions with Edward. I can’t remember which one but maybe the below will help.

That should be the case. Actually 512 channels anywhere across 64 universes (I believe FLX S had ArtNert/sACN too).

I wonder if Programmer Time affects the release time. Probably not.

Jester 12/24 doesn’t have any concept of a complex fixture. You have 24 DMX channels to use across those fixtures plus any others you have so you can’t run them all independently in 9 channel mode as that would require 27 DMX channels. Either choose a lower channel count mode on the fixtures or use the same DMX start address on two or more.

Disable release on lower 🙂

+1 for me too.

Here we go (in the Closed Fixture Editor forum): "For the long name, use the Fixture's model followed by a space, then colon, then another space, and then the Mode name. If no specific Mode name then just put the channel count.For the short name, type in as longer name as you can including the mode information within the character limit!"